So as we previously mentioned Zoe Mode are bringing out their charity-helping puzzle Chime on Steam, and it’s now available to preorder. But they’ve also tuned it to their new target audience, because the additional level on PC is Still Alive, the track from the end of Portal, written by Jonathan Coulton and performed by Ellen McLain. You can see how that works as a puzzle level in a video which I have posted below. Lovely.

From memory, you stamp pieces down to make rectangles – the larger the better. The rectangles add to the music when the time bar passes across them, playing notes and chords depending on their size. When the time bar passes a rectangle it becomes “fixed” and can no longer be added to. On the next pass of the time bar it gets removed, but the background behind it gets painted. The overall goal is to try to paint the entire background before the song runs out.

I thought it worked really well – it’s a really nicely chilled out game.

In an ideal world, paint the whole screen for a big, fat bonus, sure. But more importantly, keep building new quads to keep your bonus. If you can hit a 25x bonus, you don’t _need_ that extra one from putting a quad in the right place.